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Ten Thousand Lines Project For World Peace is an epic poetry book published in 2013. It was launched by the Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) on January 25, 2014 at the Solidaridad Bookshop on Padre Faura Street, Malate, Manila.

The book was written by Edwin M. Cordevilla, a Manila-based poet and author of two other books of poems, Phoenix and Other Poems (2000) and The Occasions of Air, Fire, Water, Earth (2012). Cordevilla started writing the epic poem in January 2010 and completed it in March 2012.

Initially conceived as an epic against terrorism through the advocacies of peace and poetic art, the journey made a dramatic turn, from outward to inward, where the narrator ultimately had to face and overcome his own demons, thereby providing the reader glimpses and certain degree of understanding of the poet behind the epic.

The poet wrote mostly in free verse, but there are instances in the epic where he utilized rhymes and in certain portions even the sonnet form. The non-traditional epic touches on themes such as terrorism, love and peace, but also touches on modern life, science, technology, history, personal experiences, faith, government, social reality, myth and mysticism.

The book is divided into chapters, and the chapters into episodes. The lines of this epic poem are also numbered up to the 10 thousandth line. The book also includes an interview with the author by writer Alvin dela Serna Lopez.